So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Americans aren’t used to having to defend democracy. It’s just been a given for so long. After all, it’s the country’s 249th ...

There is plenty of talk of threats to 'Our Democracy,' but what is really in danger today is the classical liberal tradition ...

The demise of one of Hong Kong's last major pro-democracy parties, the League of Social Democrats, is the latest blow to the ...

Speaking about “limits on limiting” democracy shifts the focus to the desired leeway or margin for democratic decision-making, i.e. the scope for its agency. While democracy, again in Plato’s words, ...

Democracy in Asia faces challenges, even where it is relatively liberal and strong, amid a global democratic recession ...

University of Regina Professor Marc Spooner analyzes the threats to academia’s public mission.

Jared Wesley, PhD, discusses how the Common Ground team helps individuals renew their commitment to decency and respect ...

There are consequences to fetishizing one’s own intellectual superiority and thereby making the Sorkin American Dream our own ...

Of 23 countries surveyed, median of 58% of adults were dissatisfied with democracy. Pew says many are frustrated with ...

To examples such as these, my friend might reply that Trump doesn’t always deliver on his rhetoric. That is true, but only to ...

In South Korea, right-leaning young men are less likely to focus on North Korea than feminism, which — for them — has become ...